tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:17:06 +0000Humanities LibrarianA blog about trends in the humanities and librarianship.http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)Blogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-114969092331215031Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:35:00 +00002006-06-07T10:35:23.350-04:00Library Journal - Taiga Forum Holds Inaugural Meeting in Chicago<a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6328059.html">Library Journal - Taiga Forum Holds Inaugural Meeting in Chicago</a>: "Paul Duguid, coauthor of The Social Life of Information, discussed the trade-off between openness of information (�la Wikipedia) and quality of information. Using three examples from the open source world, he demonstrated how variations in user-contributed data affect accuracy and accessibility. For instance, in the music database Gracenote, multiple user entries for composer (e.g., Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) force users to make their own authority control decisions. In digitizing the novel Tristram Shandy, Project Gutenberg contributors deferred making choices about how to show intentional blank and black pages and footnotes. And, finally, in an entertaining look at Wikipedia, Duguid revealed the edit wars over the biographical entry on Daniel Defoe, with writers adding and deleting his role as a spy. These examples highlighted how the library's traditional role as an arbiter of quality is being challenged by Google and open source content projects."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/06/library-journal-taiga-forum-holds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-114932949012445742Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:11:00 +00002006-06-03T06:11:31.193-04:00New College of California "On the Silk Road to Iran"<a href="http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jun/1016.html">New College of California "On the Silk Road to Iran"</a>: "The purpose of this trip is to follow in the footsteps of those who throughout the centuries have traveled to Iran in order to broaden their world perspectives. The itinerary will include the classical centers of Persian culture such as Shiraz and Isfahan, but will also explore the cultures of the Caspian provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran. With the trekking across the deserts of the Silk Road of the Iranian Plateau, the crossing of stunning mountain ranges to the exploration of the lush green subtropical Caspian littoral plain, the spectacular diversity of Iran will be experienced.<br /><br />The trip is organized in such a way that complements the students' study of interdisciplinary humanities by developing insights into Islamic art and architecture, Islamic mysticism, ancient Persian civilization, environmental activism, Persian poetry, Iranian handicrafts, Islamic revolutionary theory and practice, as well as the Iranian response to globalization."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/06/new-college-of-california-on-silk-road.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-114166316724006951Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:39:00 +00002006-03-06T12:39:27.346-04:00ArchiveGrid -- Open the door to history<a href="http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/index.jsp">ArchiveGrid -- Open the door to history</a>: "ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.<br /><br />Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/03/archivegrid-open-door-to-history.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-114165966108086616Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:41:00 +00002006-03-06T11:41:04.226-04:00Elevating the Graphic Novel<a href="http://www.gale.com/articles/2006/03/graphic_novel.htm">Gale - Articles - 2006 - 03 - Elevating the Graphic Novel</a>: "The biggest phenomenon in publishing over the last several years hasn’t been Oprah’s Book Club, a new fad diet, or even Dan Brown’s “The DaVinci Code”. In fact, a good argument could be made that the hottest publishing trend in the 2000s involves the careful combination of pictures and words in a form that strives to break free from its discredited past: the graphic novel."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/03/elevating-graphic-novel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-114165691871634320Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:55:00 +00002006-03-06T10:55:23.050-04:00Juilliard Receives Music Manuscript Collection - New York Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/college/faculty/coll01gift.html?ex=1219035600&amp;en=1ca7ddb44a9fffd5&amp;ei=5034">Juilliard Receives Music Manuscript Collection - New York Times</a>http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/03/juilliard-receives-music-manuscript.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-114164477439454436Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:32:00 +00002006-03-06T07:32:54.420-04:00WSJ.com - Portals Exchange<a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114133216592787894-QfHnrJvD9nGxk4FznpX3_gRxKTc_20070302.html?mod=rss_free">WSJ.com - Portals Exchange</a>http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/03/wsjcom-portals-exchange.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-114003419681281695Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:09:00 +00002006-02-15T16:09:58.196-04:00Sir Peter Strawson - Comment - Times Online<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2040505_2,00.html">Sir Peter Strawson - Comment - Times Online</a>: "However, his next book, Individuals (1959), a study of substance concepts, is one of the masterpieces of analytic philosophy. Building on insights from Aristotle, Strawson was able to discern, behind the surface variegation of natural languages, certain comparatively (and explicably) firm and permanent features of our natural “conceptual scheme”. He was then able to describe what he had discerned in prose whose rhythms respond perfectly to the camber of his argument, and whose balanced periods attain a Mozartian grace."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/sir-peter-strawson-comment-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-114003313615922427Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:52:00 +00002006-02-15T15:52:16.160-04:00Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Sir Peter Strawson<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1709718,00.html">Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Sir Peter Strawson</a>: "Oxford was the world capital of philosophy between 1950 and 1970, and American academics flocked there, rather than the traffic going the other way. That golden age had no greater philosopher than Sir Peter Strawson, who has died aged 86."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/guardian-unlimited-obituaries-sir.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-114003281678792902Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:46:00 +00002006-02-15T15:46:57.036-04:00P.F. Strawson 1919-2006<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/15/db1501.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/15/ixportal.html">Telegraph | News</a>: "Sir Peter Strawson, who died on Monday aged 86, was a leading light amongst the philosophers concentrated at Oxford during the 1950s and 1960s;"<br /><br />One former pupil, Bryan Magee, said: "No sooner would I have completed an assertion to him, however small or light, than I would find myself backed up against a wall and the bullets would be smacking about my head."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/pf-strawson-1919-2006.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-113891429161660053Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:04:00 +00002006-02-02T17:04:51.686-04:00'The great divide' by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad | Prospect Magazine February 2006 issue 119<a href="http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7320">Cover story: 'The great divide' by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad | Prospect Magazine February 2006 issue 119</a>: "Cinema, literature and other aspects of western culture are increasingly open to Asian influence. Not so western philosophy, which remains almost entirely sealed off from eastern traditions. Why? Institutionalised parochialism on the part of western philosophers and a loss of nerve among Asian thinkers"http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/great-divide-by-chakravarthi-ram.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-113890899013758792Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:36:00 +00002006-02-02T15:36:30.293-04:00>-- The Garden of Forking Paths --<: Frankfurt on Bullshit<a href="http://gfp.typepad.com/the_garden_of_forking_pat/2005/03/frankfurt_on_bu.html">Frankfurt on Bullshit</a>http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/garden-of-forking-paths-frankfurt-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-113890086424773068Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:21:00 +00002006-02-02T13:21:04.313-04:00Philosopher, 65, Lectures Not About 'What Am I?' but 'What Is I?' - New York Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/28/books/28krip.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ei=5088&en=9b8c06355a8dc486&amp;ex=1296104400&partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss">Philosopher, 65, Lectures Not About 'What Am I?' but 'What Is I?' - New York Times</a>: "Mr. Kripke looks the way a philosopher ought to look: pink-faced, white-bearded, rumpled, squinty. He carries his books and papers in a plastic shopping bag from Filene's Basement."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/philosopher-65-lectures-not-about-what.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-113792925874579785Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:27:00 +00002006-01-22T07:27:38.856-04:00A Hundred Books in Your PocketHmm.<br /><br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113779027926552261-36W07_WZKpwxpT812mwAwoKNNX4_20070120.html?mod=rss_free">WSJ.com - A Hundred Books in Your Pocket</a>: "The e-book is back. So are the technophobes who swear it'll never catch on. They were right last time, and they might be right this time, too. Sooner or later, though, they'll be wrong -- and when they are, your life will change."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/01/hundred-books-in-your-pocket.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-113709379876417466Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:23:00 +00002006-01-12T15:23:18.830-04:00Bush Proposes Broader Language Training - New York Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/politics/06language.html">Bush Proposes Broader Language Training - New York Times</a><br />Ready to buy books in Chinese and Arabic?http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/01/bush-proposes-broader-language.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-113501032379435203Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:38:00 +00002005-12-19T12:38:43.876-04:00Article on Teaching Web Evaluation in HistoryAn article on teaching web evaluation in history.
<br /><a href="http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/JAHCVIII2/articles/kimmel.htm">JAHC: Journal of the Association for History and Computing</a>http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/article-on-teaching-web-evaluation-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-113438781445096172Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:43:00 +00002005-12-12T07:43:34.450-04:00Notable thefts of rare books and documents<a href="http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/13380794.htm">Lexington Herald-Leader | 12/11/2005 | Notable thefts of rare books and documents</a>: Notable thefts of rare books and documents
<br />http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/notable-thefts-of-rare-books-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-113438776664188445Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:42:00 +00002005-12-12T07:42:46.640-04:00Narnia Frenzy<a href="http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2005/12/11/features/arts_leisure/doc439bba37407e8586400448.txt">QCTimes.com - The Quad-City Times Newspaper</a>: "C.S. Lewis scholarship has long been viewed as kind of fuddy-duddy-retro in academe, populated mostly by enthusiasts toiling away at religious colleges who often come to the massive Lewis output with an appreciation for its Christian message. “There is the feeling that it would be relegated to a corner,” says Christine Mather, a Lewis scholar and a lecturer in gender studies at Vanderbilt University, “that it would be a lesser area of study for a lesser scholar.”
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<br />Not now. Narnia Studies, with a minor in Harry Potter, are hot. “My goodness,” says Christopher Mitchell, director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College in Illinois, which houses the most comprehensive collection of Lewis material in the world. “There is a ton of stuff coming out right now. It’s a publishing frenzy. Everyone is trying to capitalize on the movie.”"http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/narnia-frenzy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-113438768289225065Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:41:00 +00002005-12-12T07:41:23.270-04:00Princeton Islamic Documents<a href="http://www.theeagle.com/stories/121005/faith_20051210032.php">The Bryan-College Station Eagle > Faith & Values</a>: "Numbering more than 10,000 texts, Princeton University's collection of handwritten Islamic documents, books and letters is the largest in North America. They date from the eighth and ninth centuries - soon after the faith was founded - to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s; most have gone unseen outside New Jersey for nearly a century."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/princeton-islamic-documents.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-113172479840077244Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:59:00 +00002005-11-11T12:00:02.060-04:00Amazon.com: The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection: More than 1000 of the Greatest Classics: BooksI was looking up a title in Amazon and noticed you can buy the complete Penguin Classics Library for $8,000.
<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0147503078/104-9530051-4768708?v=glance&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books&amp;v=glance">Amazon.com: The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection: More than 1000 of the Greatest Classics: Books</a>http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/11/amazoncom-penguin-classics-library.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-112923462897071496Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:17:00 +00002005-10-13T16:17:08.970-04:00ACRLog � Blog Archive � Evolving Discourse Communities<a href="http://acrlblog.org/2005/10/11/evolving-discourse-communities/">ACRLog � Blog Archive � Evolving Discourse Communities</a>: "An article that has been discussed recently on the ILI-L discussion list (sponsored by the Instruction Section of ACRL) is well worth reading."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/10/acrlog-blog-archive-evolving-discourse_13.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-112837323859004135Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:00:00 +00002005-10-03T17:00:38.633-04:00New Books on AtheismI'm selecting a few of these for our collection, probably Wolfe, Baggini and Wielenberg, maybe Harbour.
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<br /><a href="Taken collectively, the writing of the new atheists offers a set of promising ideas. Harris, for all his negative energy, provides a potentially rich idea about mysticism, as cultivated in Eastern religions, as a &quot;rational enterprise.&quot; In Buddhism, he argues, reaching beyond the self has been carefully and closely described and need not be left to faith but may be empirically studied. Baggini's rejection of dogma and militancy on all sides is not only refreshing but intellectually important; Wielenberg talks about the possible contribution of neuroscience to a future secular ethics. But by far the most important idea contained in these books is Harbour's effort to cast the discussion as a matter of worldviews.">BOOKFORUM | Oct/Nov 2005</a>: "Taken collectively, the writing of the new atheists offers a set of promising ideas. Harris, for all his negative energy, provides a potentially rich idea about mysticism, as cultivated in Eastern religions, as a 'rational enterprise.' In Buddhism, he argues, reaching beyond the self has been carefully and closely described and need not be left to faith but may be empirically studied. Baggini's rejection of dogma and militancy on all sides is not only refreshing but intellectually important; Wielenberg talks about the possible contribution of neuroscience to a future secular ethics. But by far the most important idea contained in these books is Harbour's effort to cast the discussion as a matter of worldviews."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/10/new-books-on-atheism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-112662470877440044Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:18:00 +00002005-09-13T11:18:28.820-04:00Academia and Asperger's<a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i04/04b00701.htm?rss">The Chronicle: 9/16/2005: Nutty Professors</a>: "academe appeals particularly to introspective, narcissistic, obsessive characters who occasionally suffer from mood disorders or other psychological problems."
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<br />Academic librarians often have to deal with people of various levels of personality quirks, both as patrons and as colleagues. This article raises interesting ethical questions about Asperger's syndrome in academia.http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/09/academia-and-aspergers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-112662480198932564Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:20:00 +00002005-09-13T11:20:41.363-04:00What Happens To Librarians On Weekends<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcmeola/42374171/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/29/42374171_7d58e74414_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" > <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcmeola/42374171/">Pre Ride</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/marcmeola/">Marc Meola</a>. </span></div>http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/09/what-happens-to-librarians-on-weekends.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-112608512602212790Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:25:00 +00002005-09-07T05:25:26.056-04:00Unraveling the Narrative<a href="In his forthcoming book, Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (University of Georgia Press, October), Mr. Carretta lays out his controversial evidence as part of a detailed examination of Equiano's successive identities. Though the professor offers a caveat that absolute proof of Equiano's origins might never be found, his argument has already persuaded some.">The Chronicle: 9/9/2005: Unraveling the Narrative</a>: "In his forthcoming book, Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (University of Georgia Press, October), Mr. Carretta lays out his controversial evidence as part of a detailed examination of Equiano's successive identities. Though the professor offers a caveat that absolute proof of Equiano's origins might never be found, his argument has already persuaded some."http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/09/unraveling-narrative.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12020050.post-112547748882484777Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:38:00 +00002005-08-31T04:38:08.856-04:00Chronicle Profiles Philosopher Joshua KnobeThis is interesting. I'm not sure I fully understand why the people in the experiments say what they say or what it really means about intention and morality. I'd like to read the full paper. (And how the heck did he come up with this experiment?)
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<br /><a href="http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i02/02a01103.htm">The Chronicle: 9/2/2005: Lessons From the Park</a>: "He approached people in New York City's Washington Square Park, asking them to read two short paragraphs about a profit-hungry corporate leader who wants to pursue a certain business strategy. In the first example, the businessman is told that a side effect of the strategy is that it will harm the environment. But the businessman says he doesn't care, and sure enough, when he pursues the strategy, the environment is harmed.
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<br />In the second example, the businessman is told that a side effect of his strategy is that the environment will be helped. He says he doesn't care, and sure enough, when he pursues the strategy the environment is helped.
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<br />After each scenario, Mr. Knobe asked people: Did the corporate leader intentionally harm the environment? Did he intentionally help it?
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<br />Philosophers have reasoned that questions of whether someone did something intentionally are entirely about the actor's state of mind. When asked these hypothetical questions, conventional wisdom says most people would agree the corporate leader did not intentionally help or harm the environment.
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<br />But Mr. Knobe found that people's views of intentions depend on the outcome. People in the park said that the businessman did not intentionally help the environment, but that he did intentionally harm it.
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<br />'Joshua went out and did these experiments, showing that at least one common-sense psychological concept -- doing something intentionally -- isn't really a descriptive concept, it's a moral concept,' says Mr. Stich. 'Part of people's judgments about whether you act intentionally is what they take to be the moral status of what you've done.'"http://humanitieslibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/08/chronicle-profiles-philosopher-joshua.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marc Meola)0